My systems do automatic update checks, but require manual approval to install them.

Though I generally install them pretty soon after seeing that the update is available, so there’s not much time between the update being discovered and being installed.

For applications it’s pretty much immediate but for bigger things like operating systems it can be a little bit

I have two third reality thermometers that take two double A batteries and I just used the ones you pick up from the store and I’ve noticed that same thing where even after three months it’s still showing me 100%

Yep, that’s the one.

The Third Reality speaker also recently came out.

So now there are three. The Pine one, the Home Assistant one, and the third Reality one.

I am waiting for framework laptops to fall in price. They used to cost like 6 Monero and are now down to like 2 or 3.

I wonder if with the research on CO2 effects, if we will start to get CO2 filters in common appliances such as indoor heating and cooling equipment.

Places like the International Space Station already have to deal with this because they can’t just open a window.

Zigbee has an analyzer where you can see how the connections are being made and you can actually remove the sensor from your network and then force it to reconnect to the network using a specific repeater. I’ve noticed by default that everything seems to want to connect to my ZBT1, but if I want to connect something specifically through my smart plug repeater, I have to open the home assistant app and then tap on the plug and then tap add via this device in a three dot menu…

No, I mean if someone breaks into my house, I want the police to be called.

They’ve just been deprecated to doing it the same way that every other custom operating system has been doing it for a long time. It makes it slower, but it doesn’t make it impossible.

If these were seats on a plane, they got bumped from first class down to coach at the very back. They’ll still get there. They just won’t have the nice leg room and the extra peanuts.

I would rather have Linux phones, but while those exist, they are not mainstream and ready quite yet.

So, custom Android, such as Lineage or Graphene, is about the closest we can get for now.

Honestly, the downfall of Apple would be good news in my book.

I know Google is not the greatest about it, but at least on Android, you can install third party app stores and custom operating systems.